Feds indict man on "conspiracy" for trying to save mountain lions

[villager]

PRESS RELEASE: December 2, 2004
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>SABINO CANYON LION DEFENDER TO BE INDICTED ON FEDERAL CONSPIRACY CHARGES
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>On December 2nd at 11:00am at the Evo A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse,federal prosecutors will formally indict Chukshon Earth First! (CEF!)activist Rod Coronado on conspiracy charges related to the localenvironmental group's interference with the hunt for mountain lions in Sabino Canyon last March. The indictment comes just seven days beforeCoronado was to stand trial for three lesser misdemeanor charges filed after his arrest in Sabino Canyon on March 26th. The new charge, "Conspiracy to Impede or Injure an Officer" carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison.
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>Last March when Arizona Game & Fish Department (AZGFD) and US Forest
>Service officials attempted to remove four-to-five mountain lions from Sabino Canyon, Coronado with Chukshon Earth First! organized a campaign of interference that included nonviolent tactics such as the spreading of false lion urine scent to lead AZGFD hunting hounds away from the real lions. Coronado and a reporter from Esquire magazine were originally charged with violating a federal closure and disabling a steel-cable snare set by AZGFD to capture a lion.
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>Coronado believes the indictment is in response to his continued
>organizing against AZGFD controversial policies such as the killing and removal of lions from the Coronado National Forest and the trophy
>hunting of sandhill cranes and desert bighorn sheep in southern Arizona. In November, Coronado was part of a CEF! investigation team that exposed AZGFD?s annual trophy hunt for sandhill cranes south of Willcox, AZ.

>"It's just an Orwellian attempt to intimidate me for criticizing and drawing attention to AZGFD policies that cater to urban sprawl and trophy hunters. If AZGFD continues controversial programs such as lion eradication, trophy desert bighorn sheep and sandhill crane hunting, CEF! will continue to document and expose those abuses of public lands and wildlife."
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>Unless taken into custody, Coronado will be available for interviews
>following his arraignment. Video documentation of Chukshon Earth
>First!'s efforts to protect mountain lions, black bears, Gunnison's
>prairie dogs, mule deer, elk and sandhill cranes from the hunter's guns is available uon request.
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[China_cat]

1. Coronado has served time

for arson at a Michigan State University research facility.

Some quotes from him:
"I love fire, be it around a campfire with friends or when consuming an empty fur farm, animal laboratory or luxury condominum built on the homes of my animal relations."
(In "In Case of Fire, Let It Burn" by Rod Coronado, Earth First! Journal, vol. 23, no. 6, Sept. 1, 2003.)

"I wish I didn't have to stand up here and talk about and justify and encourage direct action - encourage breaking the law, encourage burning down buildings that are built for life's destruction - but I do."
(6th National Conference on Organized Resistance, Washington, D.C., Jan. 24-26, 2003.)

"You know, those people - I think they should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them."
(Speaking of corporations that fear for the safety of employees in the wake of ALF attacks, 6th National Conference on Organized Resistance, Washington, D.C., Jan. 24-26, 2003.)

I don't like the fact that an endangered species is being hunted. But Coronado is NOT the person to put in charge of stopping it.

[villager]

3. but who else is stopping it, really?

good intentions won't matter after extinction rolls around...

[el_gato]

4. he's doing more than you ever will

[China_cat]

5. and you know that, how?

[el_gato]

6. it's rather obvious

some people are willing to lay thier asses on the line to try and stop the total carnage of what remains of the natural world and others would rather whine and cry when anybody does anything other than meaningless symbolic acts like holding a sign on a street corner.

You shouldn't condemn people who are willing to fight the good fight and lose everything for the sake of it.

Direct Action is the only thing that will ever make a difference. It is delusional to think the powers that be care about someone sitting on a street corner with a sign. It has absolutely no effect.

[DoNotRefill]

7. Ever hear of "Cointelpro"?

Want to know who is the narc in any given movement for change at any given time? Look for the person advocating blowing shit up. That's him...

[el_gato]

9. If you are trying to suggest

that Coronado is an FBI agent you are way way off!

I know all about Cointelpro so don't pretend you are informing me of anything.

[DoNotRefill]

8. Yessir....direct action is what made the Civil Rights movement happen...

Not those people marching peacefully...

[el_gato]

10. tell it to the corpse of MLK

and maybe your not looking aroung at the world we are living in because if you can honestly suggest that the world has improved over the last 40 years I think you have to be fooling yourself.

[DoNotRefill]

12. In some ways the world most certainly HAS improved over the past 40 years.

Maybe not as much as it could have, but it's definitely gotten better than it was.

"Got Klan"? When was the last time they sicced dogs on and turned firehoses on civil rights marchers?

[villager]

14. King was shot when he wanted to take on larger, structural issues...

The ruling elites can waive a cross burning or two. But when King wanted to lead a poor people's march on Washington, a "lone nut" showed up "in the nick of time."

Besides, any such perceived gain will be wiped out when/if the biosphere collapses... And the other side will not give up control of "resources" without a fight...

[DoNotRefill]

16. Come on...

If the "ruling elite" sent the "lone nut" "in the nick of time" to kill Dr. King, they'd have whacked him long before he actually died.

[el_gato]

18. King was about to lead a massive march on Washington

and permanently camp there while demanding to engage the congress members. King's later years were marked by the recognition that the fight had to be engaged on a broader level.

[villager]

19. "come on?" Are you serious?

Do you know what King had in the works when he was shot?

[DoNotRefill]

25. yup, and I know what he had already done...

and if it was some widespread conspiracy by the powerful elites, they'd have whacked him much earlier.

[el_gato]

27. hmmm...so it was all a coincidence eh?

very funny how those things always seem to work out in the favor of the ruling elite :eyes:

[villager]

28. well, I'm glad you believe the official reports about these things...

it undoubtedly leads to better sleep at night...

[DoNotRefill]

30. "official reports"?

Nah, I just think for myself, and don't believe everything I read on the Internet at places like Rense.com.

:tinfoilhat:

[el_gato]

35. so now you have to hide behind that old device

so much for honest discourse

[villager]

36. no, you believe the police version of events.

Your version and theirs is the same. Nice independent thinking, that.

[DoNotRefill]

39. heh.

When the cops fuck up, I jump all over their asses. Take MOVE in Philly, for example. That doesn't mean that every time they interact with a minority, they have automatically fucked up.

[villager]

41. this has nothing -- nothing -- to do with the facts around the MLK

slaying, which you choose to interpret in the same way the Memphis Police and J. Edgar Hoover did.

[el_gato]

17. exactly

[el_gato]

15. I guess you slept through the marches during the RNC

They successfully destroyed the civil rights movement with the murder and incarceration of key people all throughout the 60's not only with the Black Panther movement but also with the American Indian movement as well. They no longer need to sick dogs on the civil rights activists since most of them were neutralized. This was all a part of Cointelpro but then you know all about that don't you

[DoNotRefill]

23. So, if we've made no progress...

why is it that interracial couples can walk down the street now without having to seriously worry that they'll get lynched?

When you're talking about the Black Panthers and AIM, you forgot to include groups like the Weathermen...

Blowing shit up and killing cops isn't what I'd generally consider to be a "civil rights movement".

[el_gato]

26. There was a bigger threat to the structure of power in this country

acceptance of interracial dating is not a threat to those who comprise the elite, but the battle MLK and others were beginning to wage was one that would fundamentally change the nature of that power relationship and that is what had to be eliminated.

Seems pretty clear you buy into a boatload of propaganda regarding AIM and the Black Panthers. So much for you knowledge regarding Cointelpro.

Next your gonna tell me Dragnet is an accurate portrayal of the function of the FBI.

[DoNotRefill]

32. And I suppose...

that minority voter registration drives didn't upset the power elite at all, did they?

[el_gato]

33. take a look around

boy they were really shakin' in their boots over this last election :eyes:

[DoNotRefill]

40. Hispanics are still a minority...

and the Republicans courted them, because there was a chance to pick up votes for their side.

[oneighty]

34. Blowing shit up and killing cops (Or Doctors)

Seems to work pretty well for Anti-Abortionists.

IMHO

180

[el_gato]

37. red herring

when the FBI murdered those in the American Indian Movement they were fighting for the rights and their independence but you can believe in the line of bullshit the FBI put out if you want.

There was a systematic effort to destroy the civil rights movement as a whole and smear tactics were just as much a part of it as murdering activists.

[DoNotRefill]

38. Do you really think so?

I know a few pro-life people, all of whom were uniformly horrified by that...

[oneighty]

42. The shooting of the

Doctor in Amherst New York (Near me) seemed to draw rave reviews from the anti-abortionists.

Not to mention the bomber fool hiding out in North Carolina.

And the church burnings through out the south.

And the in your face picketing at woman's clinics.

All violence and killings. It works. Violence of any type intimidates.

180

[DenverDem]

31. Miami WTO protests?

Not too long ago, actually.

We are far closer to totalitarian dictatorship than we have ever been. Don't kid yourself.

[ieoeja]

13. I for one am certainly fooled.

Now you're echoing the right who claim all of the "so called" improvements like school desegregation, women's rights, decriminalizing abortion, etc have only made everything worse.

[el_gato]

20. all of those things you cite are being attacked as we speak

in case you didn't know but besides that I am not echoing anything the right wingers say. How you draw that conclusion is beyond me.

[villager]

22. plus, they feel they can now "take back" those temporary concessions,

el gato is right: These "rights" that had been "given" to us are all slowly, surely, being taken back...

[villager]

21. I'm saying the elites will give ground, tactically, when/where it suits

them... but there are still bedrock power/structure issues on which they will not yield...

[DemOperative]

24. It's quite possible Malcolm X had a little influence

by advocating and participating in direct action"

Made peaceful marches look like a desirable alternative, didn't it?
After serious shit hit the fan, they stopeed turning hoses and dogs on the peaceful marchers led by MLK.

I submit to you without the threat of far worse, the authorities wouldn't have been as accomodating.

[el_gato]

29. exactly

and that's why I choose not to condemn people who are willing to lay their ass on the line, in fact they make are lives and struggles easier.

[China_cat]

43. It's such a shame

that people think that violence is the ONLY answer to anything.

We've managed to reintroduce the red wolf and the bobcat to SC lowcountry wildlife...and protect them...without any violence. It didn't take violence to keep the whooping crane from going the way of the dodo and the passenger pigeon although they are starting to slip again because of the policies of the government.

I condemn anyone who uses violence. Because I KNOW it isn't necessary. I've been involved in many, many efforts that have brought results without endangering or harming anyone physically.

And why don't you use the right words if they are so right? DIRECT ACTION is nothing but a euphemism for violence.

[villager]

44. no -- Gandhi making salt was "direct action," too

and while I applaud the wild critter reintroductions -- hell, we need grizzlies rampaging through Orange and San Diego counties, in California -- note what is happening to the wolf in Alaska, and the wild horses in the lower 48.

Now, if those wolf-murdering helicopters were to be disabled before they could take off, would you really be that heartbroken?

[tom_paine]

2. Only Liberal Traitors engage in Conspiracies

When Our Beloved Fuhrer and The Party do it, they are Freedom Plans.

Report to the nearest re-education facility, Citizen.

[villager]

11. good to have you back, Mr. Paine!

We're in need of all the true patriots we can find, and I hadn't seen your handle around DU, post-election...